Psychology I

Feb 24, 2016

Credits: 0.5Term: Fall 2017, On Demand, Spring 2018Prerequisites:

None

Course Description:

What do you feel? How do you behave? What are your thoughts? Feelings, actions and thoughts are closely related and in this Psychology course, you will see how! Do you wonder things like why you learn the way you do, how you forget, and what makes you remember? Are you curious about mental disorders and what traditional and non-traditional therapy is all about? If experiments and role plays and dream interpretations sound interesting, then this is the class for you!

In this course you will learn more about yourself and others including how to break a habit and how to cope with stress. The purpose of this course is to introduce you to the psychological facts, principles, and phenomena associated with each of the sub-fields within psychology.

Topics & Concepts:

Getting Started

00.01 Things to Know

00.02 Navigation

00.03 Lessons + Assessments

00.04 Course Specifics

00.05 Online Learning 101

00.06 Pace

00.07 Academic Integrity

Collaboration

Collaboration

Module 01: Theories and Personality

01.00 Introduction to Theories and Personality

01.01 Roots of Psychology

01.02 Psychology Applied

01.03 Psychodynamic Perspectives

01.04 Humanistic Perspectives

01.05 Trait and Social-Cognitive Perspectives

01.06 Review and Project Milestone

01.07 Discussion-Based Assessment

Module 02: The Human Lifespan

02.00 Introduction to the Human Lifespan

02.01 Studying Development

02.02 Prenatal Development and the Newborn

02.03 Early Childhood Development

02.04 Social Development in Childhood

02.05 Adolescence

02.06 Aging

02.07 Review and Project Milestone

Module 03: Learning and Memory

03.00 Introduction to Learning and Memory

03.01 Classical Conditioning

03.02 Operant Conditioning

03.03 Observational and Cognitive Learning

03.04 Information Processing

03.05 Storage

03.06 Retrieval

03.07 Review and Project Milestone

03.08 Discussion-Based Assessment

Module 04: Thinking and Language

04.00 Introduction to Thinking and Language

04.01 Language Acquisition

04.02 Language and Thought

04.03 Problem Solving and Decision Making

04.04 Obstacles

04.05 Stress

04.06 Coping

04.07 Review and Project Milestone

Module 05: Psychological Disorders and Treatment

05.00 Introduction to Psychological Disorders and Treatment

05.01 History of Psychological Disorders

05.02 Classifying Disorders

05.03 Anxiety and Mood Disorders

05.04 Personality, Dissociative, and Schizophrenic Disorders

05.05 Overview of Treatment

05.06 Psychotherapy

05.07 Review and Discussion-Based Assessment

05.08 Final Project

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